The grip we most make use of in CrossFit is pronated - that is the double overhand we use for the Olympic lifts, pull ups, kettlebell swings, etc…

​Check out the benchmark workouts in the photo below: every WoD shown requires pronation, with perhaps only the deadlifts allowing a switch grip (one hand pronated, one supinated).

​Neutral, supinated, and other grips must be trained alongside Crossfit, or eventually:- You’ll kill your elbows- You won’t be able to work with open shoulders- It will create excessive internal rotation at the shoulder- Which will lead you towards excessive reliance on your upper traps - Creating a shoulder imbalance, instability, pain and discomfort…

Sounds like half of the CrossFit population…

How do we avoid this?

Once or twice a week, pick a movement that will keep you healthy and train it. Not everything has to be CrossFit or Weightlifting specific.

In addition... You remember how occasionally you have to lift something outside of the gym? It's never a perfectly loaded barbell... Think back to that time you had to get that fridge-freezer out of someone's kitchen, in to the boot of your car, then in to your kitchen... Think back to that time you had to carry all those bags of sand and cement up that ****ing hill, all that heavy shopping home, that time you stole a keg, helped your dad move a heavy chest of drawers up a narrow staircase, swung a sledge hammer all day, went climbing for the weekend, etc...